Ghost

The Government of Czecho-Slovakia (at Prague) and the Government of the Roman Catholic Church (at the Vatican) cannot be friends--a flame of fire walks between them.

Before Columbus discovered America, long before Martin Luther was born, the fire had done its work, which was to burn to death Jan Hus (July 6, 1415). It was not the fire that made Hus a religious hero of Protestantism and a national hero of the country now known as Czecho-Slovakia; but such he became.

A few weeks ago, the Government of Czecho-Slovakia wrote to the Vatican, requesting-a resumption of diplomatic relations, adding, however, that July 6 would still be celebrated as a national fete. Now the Vatican has refused. The national fete said the Vatican commuuique, "offends the Catholic faith represented by two-thirds of the population of the country."*The fire still burns.

*An estimate which, if anything, is conservative.